He stared out the rain-streaked window, the city lights blurring into streaks of color. The argument, about a music gig, had been a senseless thing, an explosion of ego that had left a gaping hole in their friendship. He had been so quick to judge, so eager to prove himself right, that he'd failed to see the pain he was inflicting.

He ran a hand through his hair, the action heavy with a sense of dejection. He should have been better. He had known, at the time, that he was hurting his friend.

He needed to make amends. He needed to repair what he had broken.

Emotion: remorseful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt
PC1 (Valence): -1.57 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.09

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion remorseful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 remorseful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the remorseful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the remorseful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.656
L0.580
0.463
remorse0.416
been0.398
Suppressed:
de-0.444
(!)-0.309
имеется-0.289
oldukça-0.287
😍-0.285